Eusebio Bava

Eusebio Bava (6 August 1790-30 April 1854) was a general of the Royal Italian Army during the Italian Wars of Independence.

Biography
Eusebio Bava was born in Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy on 6 August 1790, and he volunteered in the Grande Armee of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1838, he became commander of a Turin division, and he became a Lieutenant-General in the army of Sardinia-Piedmont two years later. Bava commanded an army during the Italian Wars of Independence, and he was the commander of the Italian army at the defeat at Custoza on 23-26 July 1848. Bava was dismissed after criticizing King Charles Albert of Sardinia for his meddling with the affairs of the Sardinian Army, and he became a senator before dying in 1854.